👀 "What you’re noticing is what his supporters trained him into doing.
… TFG is the distraction.
This is so important in understanding #USPolitics "
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@deborahh Well, I'd say symptom of the underlying problem.
Distraction makes it sound more planned than it likely is. I figure this is a fairly organic outcome, a political system responding to unhappy voters, or a response where it's seeking to fill a vacuum, whichever way you want to put it.
Personally, I grind the ax about the institutional failures of journalism that, had it not lost the faith of so many news consumers, could have addressed voters' concerns.
@volkris ... so by "distraction" I mean "hard-wired" distraction, because our nervous system likes this shortcut (even if it may be harmful), rather than it being "planned" by others.
This whole hair-on-fire circus piggybacks on our basic humanity: we're wired for survival, but survival-mode, neurologically, puts our higher thinking in the back seat. 😢
It's so important, right now, that we are mindful, centered, and rested, so we can really perceive the bigger patterns.
#turnOffTheTV
@volkris I'm a coach, trained to spot how a person's brain takes shortcuts. Thisbisbabhuman superpower, often heneficial! Also, our Achilles' Heel.
TFG is a shortcut our brains take to avoid encountering a whole constellation of wicked problems that threaten our way of life.
I expect journalists, too, to spot this and to do better. If "woke" means anything, it's seeing clearly and challenging, not reinforcing, comforting shortcuts.
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